Thursday, June 22, 2006
"No WMD In Iraq" - a disproven and dead claim
Since 2003, Coalition forces in Iraq have recovered approximately 500 weapons munitions which contain degraded mustard gas or sarin nerve agent. Some of these, Saadam had once admitted he had, and then claimed to have destroyed. Others, Saadam never admitted having in the first place.
Saadam was not telling the truth when he claimed to have destroyed all his WMD.
These are older, pre 1991 munitions, like the shells he used to murder 5000+ Kurds.
Ramifications:
* Since we now have proof that Iraq did not get rid of all it's prewar weaponized WMD, chances just went up that some of it has seeped into the black market, putting WMD into the hands of other groups. Possibly terrorist groups, operating in and possibly outside of Iraq. (Various insurgents and Iraqi groups are widely reported as desiring to acquire and use chemical weapons.)
* The legitimacy of the Iraq war just went up - or at least it should for anyone who considers themselves informed and intellectually honest. (How much legitimacy it adds, remains a subject for honest debate.)
See the news story here: www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,200499,00.html
# posted by TheObiBlog : 10:26 AM
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Munitions left over from the 1980's war with Iran, buried and forgotten since then. Causus belli?
# posted by 
: June 23, 2006 5:29 PM
: June 23, 2006 5:29 PM
Causus Belli? Not really.
Greater causes and justifications for the war, are that Saadam wasn't complying with his agreement to abide by the UN resolutions. He wasn't letting the world watch his supposed dismantling.
He did a pretty good job of convincing intelligence services in France, Germany, Russia, Israel, and China, that he still had an active WMD program.
Take a look at Lybia if you want to see what an honest dismantling of a WMD program looks like. You'll notice nobody is accusing them of hiding and being hard to work with.
Consider a playground analogy:
Bobby hits Billy with a baseball bat.
Tommy beats the crap out of Bobby, and elicits the promise that Bobby will get rid of his bat.
Next recess, Bobby is walking around with his hands holding something behind his back, shouting "I don't have a bat!" He's obviously being devious, and up to no good.
Tommy says "Bobby, show me what's behind your back, or I'm going to assume it's a bat, and go beat the tar out of you again."
Bobby refuses, and just continues walking around yelling "I don't have a bat! I'm no threat at all! No bat here!"
So tell me, after the next beating, does it really matter that Bobby's hands were empty? Was the 2nd beating wrong or unjustified?
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Greater causes and justifications for the war, are that Saadam wasn't complying with his agreement to abide by the UN resolutions. He wasn't letting the world watch his supposed dismantling.
He did a pretty good job of convincing intelligence services in France, Germany, Russia, Israel, and China, that he still had an active WMD program.
Take a look at Lybia if you want to see what an honest dismantling of a WMD program looks like. You'll notice nobody is accusing them of hiding and being hard to work with.
Consider a playground analogy:
Bobby hits Billy with a baseball bat.
Tommy beats the crap out of Bobby, and elicits the promise that Bobby will get rid of his bat.
Next recess, Bobby is walking around with his hands holding something behind his back, shouting "I don't have a bat!" He's obviously being devious, and up to no good.
Tommy says "Bobby, show me what's behind your back, or I'm going to assume it's a bat, and go beat the tar out of you again."
Bobby refuses, and just continues walking around yelling "I don't have a bat! I'm no threat at all! No bat here!"
So tell me, after the next beating, does it really matter that Bobby's hands were empty? Was the 2nd beating wrong or unjustified?
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